How to install Gibbon on CentOS 7

To install Gibbon on CentOS 7

Gibbon is a free, Open Source, and highly flexible web based school management system that can be used to solve real time problems of teachers, students, parents, and educators in different kind of schools. Gibbon is useful for seamless planing, teaching, and assessment for both teachers and students. Apart from this, Gibbon also has many more features, such as planner, external assessment, online application forms, messenger etc.

Pre requirements

• Lamp service enabled in it
• Create a database and user for Gibbon in mysql

Installing Gibbon

Before you begin with the installation of Gibbon in your system, make sure you make appropriate changes in the php configuration file.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# vim /etc/php.ini
In the file search and modify following lines
.
max_input_vars = 5000
.
.
error_reporting = E_ALL &  ~E_NOTICE
.

Once it is made, download gibbon package by executing the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# wget https://github.com/GibbonEdu/core/archive/v9.1.00.zip
--2017-08-08 15:37:08--  https://github.com/GibbonEdu/core/archive/v9.1.00.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112, 192.30.255.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
.
.
Saving to: ‘ v9.1.00.zip’ 
2017-08-08 15:38:36 (162 KB/s) - ‘ v9.1.00.zip’  saved [14120731]

Once the file is downloaded, unzip it as follows.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# unzip v9.1.00.zip 
Archive:  v9.1.00.zip
a0c4eeeba4b5ec169ffcd05ad6ac15e2f5876a9d
   creating: core-9.1.00/
 extracting: core-9.1.00/.gitignore  
  inflating: core-9.1.00/.htaccess   
.
.
inflating: core-9.1.00/update.php  
  inflating: core-9.1.00/version.php  

Move the extracted file to html location now.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# mv core-9.1.00/ /var/www/html/gibbon

Over here, you need to change ownership of the file.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/gibbon/

Change the permission of the file by executing the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# chmod 777 /var/www/html/gibbon/

Once it is done, restart the Apache server.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# systemctl restart httpd

After the Apache service is restart, go to browser and give url as http://serverip/gibbon. It opens the installation page of gibbon.

Select language and click on submit.

Fill the database information and click submit.

Fill the user account details.

Fill the organization setting

Fill the miscellaneous and click submit

Finally the completion page appears. Click on go to your Gibbon homepage.

The welcome page appears, enter your login details and click login.

The home page of gibbon appears on your screen.

With this, the installation of Gibbon is complete.